No booze involved; Kevin Williamson suggests we replace Ireland as Apple’s tax shelter—a small chunk of $200 billion is better than none—and throws in this barbed aside:

Apple engages in some legal and accounting hijinx to make all this happen in Ireland. But none of what it does is illegal, so far as the U.S. government is concerned. None of it is illegal so far as the Irish government is concerned. And it’s not exactly illegal in the European Union’s view — just not the way Brussels would like to see it done. The European Union has ordered the Republic of Ireland to collect back taxes that the Republic of Ireland says are not owed to it. If Ireland is indeed still a republic and not a prefecture of a European superstate, then it has the sovereign authority to make final determinations in such matters for itself. If Ireland doesn’t have that power, then it seems like the Irish went to a great deal of trouble in pursuit of that whole national-sovereignty thing.

Two French Canadian twentysomething women used a $20,000 two-month cruise as the cover for some cocaine smuggling. As in US$23 million worth of cocaine the Aussies caught them with. Crikey! Click the link to see many photos of these very bad girls in their bikinis. (No photos of their 63-year-old accomplice/sugar daddy).

The two major party candidates and two minor party candidates running for president are all left of center:

One issue that has consumed much of the 2016 cycle’s political oxygen is immigration, on which the Republican nominee has issued a series of controversial statements and proposals -- and the Democratic nominee has vowed to go even further than President Obama in pursuing constitutionally-dubious executive actions if Congress fails to bend to her will. I asked Johnson about his immigration policies from the perspective of a border state governor (:30), and pressed him on his previously-stated support for Obama’s unilateral executive amnesty (6:45). Along the way, we also sparred over the term “illegal immigrant,” to which Johnson strenuously objected (4:20) as “incendiary” and offensive.

Tuesday, 30 August 2016

His explanation for why he never shared with his audience his belief that Trump was unserious about deportation:

I am a radio guy. I do a radio program. And my success here is defined by radio and broadcast business metrics, not political. It never has been defined by political metrics, I’ve never wanted it to be. I have always said countless times, my success is not determined by who wins elections.

Truth is for suckers. As Limbaugh’s Mini-Me Howie Carr said of Trump: “What’s wrong with telling us what we want to hear?”

Donald Trump’s new $10 million TV ad cites two contradictory tax plans -- one that Trump has explicitly ruled out and another that he has yet to endorse -- raising more questions about what policies the GOP presidential nominee supports.